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<\/a>One eye and four blindfolds<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\nMelanie Phillips<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n The reluctance of Western governments to respond robustly to Iranian aggression ever since the Islamic revolutionary regime in Tehran came to power in 1979 has hugely increased the danger that this malign actor poses to the free world.<\/span><\/p>\n Not only has Iran committed countless acts of terrorism against Western interests and Jewish targets. The Islamic Republic has also created a network of jihadi sleeper cells in Western countries. It\u2019s been involved in coordinating the pro-Hamas hate marches in Western cities ever since the Hamas-led atrocities in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n And it\u2019s tried to murder Iranian dissidents and political figures in Britain and America, including plots to assassinate on American soil the former U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton and the former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.<\/span><\/p>\n This week, the Australian government, headed by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, suddenly announced that Iran had been behind two terrorist attacks against Jewish targets last year, the firebombing of the Adass Synagogue in Melbourne and the kosher Lewis\u2019 Continental Kitchen in Sydney<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n According to the Australian Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO), it\u2019s likely that the Iranian regime was also involved in other attacks.<\/span><\/p>\n As a result, the Australian government has thrown out the Iranian ambassador\u2014the first time it has expelled an ambassador since World War II\u2014and has pulled its own diplomats out of the Islamic Republic. It also intends to proscribe Tehran\u2019s terrorist shock troops, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.<\/span><\/p>\n This is, to put it mildly, a startling development. The Albanese government has taken an eye-wateringly hostile attitude to Israel in its war against Iran. Albanese and his virulently anti-Israel foreign minister, Penny Wong, have never shown any sign that they\u2019ve understood the threat posed by Iran to both Israel and the West.<\/span><\/p>\n Instead, they\u2019ve consistently sucked up to the fanatics of Tehran. At the beginning of August, Iran\u2019s ambassador to Australia, Ahmad Sadeghi, called for the \u201cwiping out\u201d of the \u201cZionist plague\u201d by 2027.<\/span><\/p>\n This was but the latest in a string of deeply concerning remarks by Sadeghi that had received no adequate ministerial pushback. Last year, he extolled the now-deceased Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah as a \u201cremarkable leader\u201d and a \u201cprominent standard-bearer,\u201d while defaming Israel as \u201cthe most notorious killing machine in current world history.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Calling his \u201cZionist plague\u201d remarks \u201cabhorrent,\u201d \u201chateful\u201d and \u201cantisemitic,\u201d Albanese implied that Sadeghi had been summoned for a dressing-down. In fact, he was reportedly called in for talks with foreign ministry officials merely about how to \u201cde-escalate\u201d the war in Gaza in order to have \u201ca sustained ceasefire.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Yet since the start of the Gaza war, Israel\u2019s ambassador to Australia, Amir Maimon, has been summoned for a dressing-down by the Albanese administration on at least three occasions because it doesn\u2019t like the way that Israel has been conducting its military operations.<\/span><\/p>\n The government has presided over an explosive frenzy of Jew-hatred in Australia. Not only has it failed to douse this, it has actually fueled it by recycling the Hamas lies that have painted the Israelis as evil people who deliberately kill civilians and starve children to death.<\/span><\/p>\n It has arguably displayed more malice towards Israelis than has been shown by any other country. Earlier this month, it canceled a visit by Simcha Rothman, chair of the Knesset\u2019s Constitution, Law and Justice Committee, shortly before he was due to begin a solidarity tour with Australia\u2019s Jewish community.<\/span><\/p>\n Among its reasons, the government said Rothman\u2019s statements, including \u201cthe elimination of Hamas and the expansion and sovereignty of the Israeli state, and denial of any wrongdoing by Israel against Palestinians and Gaza during the current conflict,\u201d were viewed by members of the Australian community as \u201cinflammatory and concerning.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n In fact, the Albanese government has a shocking track record of canceling the visas of Israeli Jewish visitors, including the former government minister Ayelet Shaked and the high-tech influencer Hillel Fuld, whose brother, Ari Fuld, was murdered at the Gush Etzion Junction by terrorists in 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n Yet it\u2019s happily issued visas to terrorist sympathizers, including the London-based Tunisian media entrepreneur Sammi Hamdi, who encouraged people to \u201ccelebrate\u201d Oct. 7, and preacher Mohammed Ghuloom, who had also praised Nasrallah.<\/span><\/p>\n So remarks made by Albanese and Wong, when announcing their action against Tehran, struck a note of quite sickening hypocrisy.<\/span><\/p>\n Iran, said Wong, had tried to \u201cundermine social cohesion\u201d; Albanese said it had tried to \u201csow hatred and division in our community.\u201d But it\u2019s Albanese and Wong themselves who have been sowing hatred and division against the Jews of Australia by regurgitating Hamas lies and maliciously discriminating against Israelis in order to appease their country\u2019s Muslims.<\/span><\/p>\n Moreover, government sources have reportedly disclosed that the Albanese government has been aware for several months of possible Iranian links to the attacks on Jews in Australia.<\/span><\/p>\n So why has Albanese suddenly decided to act against the Islamic regime? The reason is almost certainly that he has begun to feel some heat over his government\u2019s appalling behavior.<\/span><\/p>\n Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pushed diplomatic niceties to one side by chewing him out in public over the Rothman ban, while Israel has stripped some Australian diplomats of their visas. This may have concentrated Albanese\u2019s mind on the fact that intelligence-sharing with Israel remains crucial to Australia\u2019s national security.<\/span><\/p>\n In 2017, Israel alerted ASIO that there was a plot to blow up an Etihad Airways flight leaving Sydney. And this week, Sky N<\/a><\/em>ews revealed that a tip-off from Israeli intelligence had assisted ASIO during its investigation, which unraveled the Iran connection to the terror attacks.<\/span><\/p>\n More significant still, U.S. President Donald Trump appears to be taking a very dim view indeed of Australia\u2019s anti-Israel antics. He has yet to meet Albanese.<\/span><\/p>\n And Australia\u2019s defense minister, Richard Marles, was humiliated this week by American defense officials\u2019 ambiguity over whether exchanges with his U.S. counterpart, Pete Hegseth, in Washington, D.C., were an actual \u201cmeeting\u201d or a \u201chappenstance encounter.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Any idea that Albanese has now seen the light over Israel is vanishingly unlikely.<\/span><\/p>\n On Sky News Australia<\/a><\/em>, Sharri Markson revealed that in 1998, a \u201cstarry-eyed\u201d Albanese met Yasser Arafat, head of the terrorist Palestine Liberation Organization, which had sponsored and funded his trip to Ramallah.<\/span><\/p>\n Two years later, she said, during the Second Intifada, when Palestinian Arabs were blowing Israelis to bits on buses and in pizza parlors, Albanese joined protests against Israel, during which American and Israeli flags were burnt.<\/span><\/p>\n In a speech to the Australian parliament while Israel was struggling to stop the slaughter of more than 1,300 of its citizens, Albanese condemned Israeli roadblocks and other restrictions on Palestinians as abuses of their civil rights.<\/span><\/p>\n Albanese has now admitted that he has been an advocate for the Palestinian cause his whole life and says he is angry at the anti-Israel protesters\u2014only because their extremism is undermining that cause. In other words, in the great battle now underway between civilization and barbarism, Albanese has put Australia on the wrong side.<\/span><\/p>\n This matters not just to Israel but to the West. Australia is a member of the Five Eyes security alliance. The other four members are the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada and New Zealand.<\/span><\/p>\n In its hostility to Israel\u2014the West\u2019s indispensable front line of defense in the Middle East\u2014Australia has been puncturing that alliance, a breach that its belated burst of realism over Iran cannot repair.<\/span><\/p>\n Unfortunately, though, it\u2019s not alone in this. The United Kingdom, Canada and New Zealand have also turned into foes of the Jewish state, demonizing it with lies aimed at its delegitimization and preparing to recognize the illusory \u201cstate of Palestine\u201d which is being willed into existence purely as a means to Israel\u2019s destruction.<\/span><\/p>\n Only America is holding fast to Israel\u2019s security and defense. So the Five Eyes alliance has now turned into One Eye and Four Blindfolds.<\/span><\/p>\n Australia, Britain, Canada and New Zealand can no longer be trusted with the defense of the West. It\u2019s now America and Israel fighting for a free world that no longer understands what that means.<\/span><\/p>\n Zawarto\u015b\u0107 publikowanych artyku\u0142\u00f3w i materia\u0142\u00f3w nie reprezentuje pogl\u0105d\u00f3w ani opinii Reunion’68,<\/em> . One eye and four blindfolds Melanie Phillips Australia\u2019s sudden realism concerning a malign Iran cannot repair the harm it is doing to Israel and the West. Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs Penny Wong. Credit: Australian MFA. 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\nAustralia\u2019s sudden realism concerning a malign Iran cannot repair the harm it is doing to Israel and the West.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n
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Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs Penny Wong. Credit: Australian MFA.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n
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<\/span>Melanie Phillips<\/strong>, a British journalist, broadcaster and author, writes a weekly column for JNS. Currently a columnist for The Times of London, her new book, The Builder\u2019s Stone: How Jews and Christians Built the West and Why Only They Can Save It, is published by Wicked Son and can be purchased on Amazon. To access her work, go to: melaniephillips.substack.com.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n
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